Loom filler-carrier.



J. E. CONNELLY.

LOOM FILLER CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24 1915 Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

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JAMES E. CONNELLY, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

LOOM FILLER-CARRIER.

To allrwhom it may concern Be it known that. 1, JAMES E.- CONNELLY, a citizen either United States, residing at Fort way'neilin the county of Allen and State of "Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in. Loom Filler-Carriers,,of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in filler-carriers of bobbins for weaving or knitting looms. In many types of such machines the filled bobbins are placed upon spindles and the thread or yarn is wound oil of them by the movin parts of the machine. As the end of the filfer on the bobbin is reached the machine is shut down in order that a filled bobbin ma be substituted for the exhausted. bobbin. t is impracticable to tie the extreme end of they exhausted bobbin filler to the outer end of the filler on the substituted.

bobbin, accordingly it is the common practice for the operator to tie the outer end of the new filler to the exhausting filler at a point above the exhausting bobbin and to cut oil the remainder of the filler on that bobbin and discard it. The amount of filler thus discarded and thrown away is substantial and is multiplied by the number of bobbins and number of machines in any mill. The delay caused by shutting down the machine for each substitution is also substan tial in amount for each machine.

The object of my invention is to eliminate all the above described loss in time and material by providing a bobbin with means by which the inner end of the filler, as the filler is being wound upon the bobbin, is protected and engaged thereon, so that when the bobbin is installed on the machine the said end is readily accessible for connecting to the free outer end of a reserve bobbin similarly wound, and such connection being made without stopping the machine.

It is necessary to protect the inner end of a filler while being wound otherwise it will become soiled and frayed and unfit for subsequent use.

The invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and illustrated in the drawings, which drawings illustrate one manner of carrying out my invention and 1n Wl11Cl1- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a filled bobbin constructed according to my invention;

Fig. 2 a view of a bobbin almost exhausted Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, ram.

Application filed March 24, 1915. Serial No. 16,536.

01 filler and connected to the filled bobbin of F g. 1, and Fig. 3 a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings the bobbin, the one illustrated being a well known and standard form, consists of a cylindrical stem 10, a conical base 11 and head 12. The conical base is provided with a stepped formation as shown or it may be otherwise peripherally recessed to provide a suitable surface upon which the filler is wound. An annular recess 13 is also provided in the head and a suitable clip 14 is secured to the head ad acent the recess and it is preferably placed over the recess with the free end of the clip pointing upwardly.

When the filler is wound onto the bobbin it is first caught in the clip then wound one or more turns in recess 13 then it is brought up onto the cone and the winding completed on the cone and stem as illustrated in Fig. 1. It is necessary that only a very small portion of the filler shall project beyond the clip. The bobbin thus filled is placed upon a spindle on the machine and similarly wound bobbins are also placed in position on similar spindles to the full requirements of the machine or work to be done. For each spindle occupied by a filled bobbin there are or will be provided onthe machine one or two or more spindles upon which the operator will place reserve bobbins, similarly wound, at the same time he installs the first lot or during the operation of the machine. He will release the caught inner end 15 of each of the first lot of bobbins and unwind that portion of it which is contained in the recess in the base and connect it to the outer end 16 of one of the reserve bobbins and similarly, if he has supplied a plurality of reserve bobbins for each working bobbin, he will similarly connect the inner end of the first reserve bobbin to the outer end of another reserve bobbin. With the machine in operation, as the first bobbin is exhausted the first reserve bobbin continues the operation and so on without interruption or shutting down the machine. If the operator merely installs one set of bobbins he may, as any bobbin approaches the end of its filler, place a filled bobbin on one of the reserve spindles, release the caught inner end on the first bobbin and connect it to the outer endof the rfiserve bobbin without stopping the mac me.

It will be seen that if enough of the inner end of a filler were permitted to project from the bobbin to enable the operator to tie it to the outer endof'a reserve bobbin it would, while being wound thereon become frayed and soiled and be useless or require subsequent cleaning. The provision of the recess in and cli on the head of my bobbin protects a su cient amount of the filler to enable the operator to perform the tying operation without the loss of any part of the filler and Without stopping the machine to make the connection.

It will be understood that the bobbins are of the type which do not revolve, the fi ller JAMES E. coNNELLr. 

